Scrum Master
Chicago, IL

Job Description

Title: Scrum Master

Job ID: 1278

Location:

Chicago, IL, US

Category: Information Technology

Description:

Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN) is a leader in risk and compliance solutions, providing insightful technology, industry expertise and data insights to clients across the globe. We're here to help you make smarter decisions with insightful technology, industry expertise and data insights at every stage of your business and investment lifecycles. As markets fluctuate, regulations evolve and technology advances, we're there. And through it all, we deliver confidence with the right solutions in moments that matter.

Description

The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team, helping teams deliver value to the organization consistently and transparently.

As a successful Scrum Master at Donnelley Financial Solutions you will:

* Have experience helping teams develop and evolve agile practices in environments where agile is not fully understood or practiced.
* Demonstrate proficiency in extracting value out of scrum beyond running ceremonies and creating burn-down charts. Embodies the agile mindset.
* Be highly empathic while driving change forward.
* Evangelize continuous improvement. Helping teams define and track metrics to highlight bottlenecks, blocks or impediments to delivering value.
* Be passionate about creating successful teams and high trust environments.

Responsibilities

The Scrum Master serves the Development Team in several ways, including:

* Coaching the Development Team in self-organization, cross-functionality, and continuous improvement;
* Removing impediments to the Development Team's progress and creating an environment for success;
* Facilitating scrum ceremonies, including grooming, planning, stand-ups and retrospectives.
* Helping the Development Team to create high-value products at a consistent cadence;

The Scrum Master serves the Product Owner in several ways, including:

* Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible;
* Teaching techniques for effective Product Backlog management, including prioritizing to maximize value;
* Facilitating the establishment of a clear and concise Product Backlog items;
* Coaching agile product planning in an empirical environment;

The Scrum Master serves the organization in several ways, including:

* Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development;
* Causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team;
* Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization

Qualifications

* 3+ years' experience in a Scrum Master role.
* Commitment to continual improvement - Must continually be growing one's craft by learning new practices and techniques to better serve your teams.
* Commitment to empiricism - Must help teams bring transparency to the Scrum Artifacts so that teams can inspect and adapt their work and progress towards their Sprint Goal continuously.
* Nice to Have Certifications:
* Professional Scrum Master (PSM) I, II, or III - Scrum.org
* Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Scrum Alliance



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